The Extreme Centre: How the Neoliberal Project has Reshaped the World

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THE EXTREME CENTRE: HOW THE NEOLIBERAL PROJECT HAS RESHAPED THE WORLD

Tuesday, 16 February 2016, 5-7PM

Tariq Ali (writer, filmmaker and editor of New Left Review)

The Extreme Centre: How the Neoliberal Project Has Reshaped the World  

BGLT (SOAS, Brunei Gallery), Bloomsbury, London

Discussant: Dr Feyzi Ismail (SOAS)

Abstract: Since 1989, politics has become a contest to see which politicians can best serve the needs of the market. The result is always the same: a victory for the Extreme Centre. The same catastrophe has taken place in the US, Britain, Continental Europe and Australia. In this urgent and wide-ranging case for the prosecution, Tariq Ali looks at the people and the events that have informed this moment of political suicide: corruption in Westminster; the failures of the EU and NATO; the soft power of the American Empire that dominates the world stage uncontested. Despite this inertia, Ali goes in search of alternative futures, finding promise in the Bolivarian revolutions of Latin America and the edges of Europe. Emerging parties in Scotland, Greece and Spain, formed out of the 2008 crisis, as well as Corbynism in Britain, are offering new hope for democracy.

Tariq Ali has been a leading figure on the international left since the 60s, having engaged in debates against the Vietnam War with leading politicians of the time. He has written extensively on world history and politics; his works include The Obama Syndrome, The Clash of Fundamentalisms and his most recent publication, The Extreme Centre: A Warning. Described by the Observer as an ‘intellectual bomb thrower’ his contributions extend to film and theatre scripts, novels and published conversations, such as with Edward Said. He is a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio and contributes to magazines and newspapers including The Guardian and the London Review of Books.

All welcome, no need to book. Seating is available on a first come, first served, basis so please arrive early to be sure of a seat.

On behalf of the seminar organising committee: Alfredo Saad-Filho, Feyzi Ismail, Jo Tomkinson, Carolina Alves, Lorenza Monaco and Jai Bhatia

Further details of all the seminars are available on the SOAS Development Studies Department website: https://www.soas.ac.uk/development/events/devstudseminars/

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Will We Crash Again? Why Capitalism Needs Debt Write-offs to Survive

WILL WE CRASH AGAIN? WHY CAPITALISM NEEDS DEBT WRITE-OFFS TO SURVIVE

Conway Hall Ethical Society & London Futurists presents:

London Thinks – Will We Crash Again? Why Capitalism Needs Debt Write-offs to Survive

With STEVE KEEN

Tuesday 1st September @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm | £5 – £10

CONWAY HALL

25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL United Kingdom

Website: http://conwayhall.org.uk/

Booking: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/will-we-crash-again-why-capitalism-needs-debt-write-offs-to-survive-tickets-17879762852

Mainstream economists failed to anticipate the great financial crash of 2007-8. In this talk, Professor Steve Keen will share his view on the bigger picture – including recent financial developments around the world. He will review options for the future of economics, highlight the little-understood importance of debt, and argue that significant debt write-downs are needed in order to limit future financial crashes.

Steve Keen is a Professor of Economics & Head of the School of Economics, History & Politics at Kingston University. He was one of the handful of economists to realise that a serious economic crisis was imminent, and to publicly warn of it, from as early as December 2005.

A staunch critic of mainstream economics, his book Debunking Economics is now in its 2nd edition and has been translated into Chinese, French and Spanish.

The event will be moderated by David Wood, Chair of London Futurists. The talk will be followed by audience Q&A.

A cash bar will be available at the event. Afterwards, there will be the chance to continue the discussion at a nearby pub.

Organised in partnership with the London Futurists

London Futurists hold regular speaker events to explore radical scenarios for the next 3-40 years.

For more details, see http://londonfuturists.com/.

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Negritude, Decolonization and the Future of the World

Antonio Negri

NEGRITUDE, DECOLONIZATION AND THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD

Website: http://www.lse.ac.uk/humanRights/events/2015/Wilder.aspx

Public Lecture Presented by the  Internationalism, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Solidarity Research Group

Tuesday 26 May 2015, 6pm -7.30pm

Thai Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE

Speaker: Dr Gary Wilder

Chair: Dr Ayça Çubukçu

Dr Wilder reconsiders decolonization from the perspectives of Aimé Césaire (Martinique) and Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegal) who, beginning in 1945, promoted self-determination without state sovereignty. As politicians, public intellectuals, and poets, Césaire and Senghor struggled to transform imperial France into a democratic federation, with former colonies as autonomous members of a transcontinental polity. Wilder invites scholars to decolonize intellectual history and globalize critical theory, to analyze the temporal dimensions of political life, and to question the territorialist assumptions of contemporary historiography.

Gary Wilder is Director of the Mellon Committee on Globalization and Social Change, and Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Department of History at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. His latest book is Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization and the Future of the World (Duke University Press, 2015)

Ayça Çubukçu (chair) is Assistant Professor in the Centre for the Study of Human Rights and Department of Sociology at LSE. She convenes the Internationalism, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Solidarity Research Group

This event is co-hosted by the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, the Department of Sociology, and the Centre for International Studies at LSE (London School of Economics).

This event is open to all with no ticket or pre-registration required. Entry is on a first come, first served.

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Polarizing Development: Alternatives to Neoliberalism and the Crisis

Crisis

POLARIZING DEVELOPMENT: ALTERNATIVES TO NEOLIBERALISM AND THE CRISIS

A new book by Thomas Marois and Lucia Pradella and Book Launch

Dear all,

I am pleased to let you know that Polarizing Development: Alternatives to Neoliberalism and the Crisis, edited by Thomas Marois and myself, is out! This collection of essays elaborates worldwide strategies for moving beyond neoliberalism and the crisis. Contributions range from Latin America to Asia, Africa to the Middle East and Europe to the US.
On Tuesday, 9 December, there will be the book launch in the SOAS Department of Development Studies, University of London (Russell Square Campus, G3, 5-7pm). Books will be sold at discount prize (£15) and there will be a small refreshment to celebrate.

You can find further information on this book at this page: http://www.plutobooks.com/display.asp?K=9780745334691&st1=Polarizing%2BDevelopment&sf1=kword_index%2Cpublisher&sort=sort_pluto&m=1&dc=2

If you are interested in reviewing this book please get in touch with Alison Alexanian at Pluto Press to receive a free review copy(alisona@plutobooks.com)

All the best,

Lucia Pradella

 

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The Reading Agency Lecture 2015: Russell Brand

Russell Brand

THE READING AGENCY LECTURE 2014: RUSSELL BRAND

Russell Brand to give The Reading Agency Lecture

Russell Brand will deliver The Reading Agency Lecture on 25 November 2014, 7.00-8.00pm.

See: http://readingagency.org.uk/news/media/russell-brand-to-give-the-reading-agency-lecture.html

The Reading Agency Lecture will take place in The Logan Hall at the Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL

You can buy tickets for the lecture from Eventbrite.

Tickets are priced at £20 and £10 for concessions (under 24s).

The lecture was initiated by The Reading Agency in 2012. It aims to provide a platform for leading writers and thinkers to share original, challenging ideas about the future of reading in the UK.

Russell Brand will deliver ‘a manifesto on reading’ which will be in part personal, sharing his own experience of books and reading while growing up in the UK; and it will be in part as a public figure, sharing his views on the status of reading and storytelling in our national culture and why reading is important for young people – especially boys – in the UK today.

Russell Brand says:

“Writing is the most intimate medium. Right there in the brain, in the swamp of fear and desire. I like splashing about in there, stirring up sediment, doing the breaststroke. In this lecture I will try and drag this metaphor out for an hour.”

Further information: http://readingagency.org.uk/adults/get-involved/002-events/russell-brand-a-manifesto-on-reading.html

‘The Bookseller’: http://www.thebookseller.com/news/russell-brand-give-reading-agency-lecture

 

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The Globalisation Lectures

Global Capitalism

THE GLOBALISATION LECTURES

 

‘THE GLOBALISATION LECTURES’

2014-2015

Organised by the Department of Development Studies

School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)

University of London

Convenor: Professor Gilbert Achcar

 
WORKERS IN A JUST-IN-TIME WORLD: HOW CAPITALISM IS FORGING A GLOBAL SUPPLY-CHAIN-GANG

Workers across the world are producing more goods, services, and wealth than ever, but receiving less and less of their value in return. Neoliberal polices are the enablers of this extortion, but beneath the privatisation, deregulation, and tax breaks, lies the largely hidden theft of time.  Capital today is forging a worldwide network of digitally-driven, accelerating just-in-time supply chains that push wages down and effort up for the vast majority. Trade unions have been weakened and traditional ‘collective bargaining’ undermined. Yet, resistance is on the rise and capital’s interdependent global networks more vulnerable to disruption than ever.

KIM MOODY

Long-time trade union activist, author of Workers in a Lean World and In Solidarity: Essays on Working Class Organization in the United States

Monday 27 October, 6:30pm

SOAS, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre

Free entrance, first come first seated

Kim Moody is the author of several books on labour and social issues including Workers in a Lean World (1997), US Labor in Trouble and Transition(2007), and In Solidarity: Essays on Working-Class Organization in the United States (2014). He has been a trade union activist and a founder and director of the publication Labor Notes in the United States. Until recently he was a senior research fellow in industrial relations at the University of Hertfordshire.

 

Next Lectures in the series (with day corrected for 2nd March):

 

Monday 1st December, 6:30pm – Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre

GLOBALIZATION SINCE BHOPAL: THREE DECADES OF ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER

VANDANA SHIVA

Leading member of the International Forum on Globalisation and prominent figure of the alter-globalisation movement

RAVI RAJAN

Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

CO-ORGANISED WITH THE BHOPAL MEDICAL APPEAL

 

Monday 26 January, 6:30pm – Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre

WOMEN’S RIGHTS AND THE ARAB UPRISINGS

AHLEM BELHADJ, MD

Professor of Child Psychiatry at the University of Tunis, former chair of the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women (ATFD)

 

Monday 2 March, 6:30pm – Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre

DEVELOPMENT AND THE METABOLIC RIFT: REACTIONS TO THE CONTRADICTION

BARBARA HARRISS-WHITE

Emeritus Professor of Development Studies, Oxford University, Co-ordinator, South Asia Research Cluster, Wolfson College, Oxford
First Published in http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/news/distributed/soas-globalisation-lectures-27-october-workers-in-a-just-in-time-world-capitalism-and-the-supply-chain-gang

 

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Insurrectionist Pedagogies and the Pursuit of Dangerous Citizenship

Glenn Rikowski

INSURRECTIONIST PEDAGOGIES AND THE PURSUIT OF DANGEROUS CITIZENSHIP

Insurrectionist Pedagogies and the Pursuit of Dangerous Citizenship

Professor E . Wayne Ross

University of British Columbia

The 6^th Annual Mary Hepburn Lecture in Social Studies Education

Department of Educational Theory & Practice, College of Education, University of Georgia

Athens, GA

October 16, 2014

6.00-7.00pm

Lamar School of Art

Room S151

Light refreshments served at 5.30.

It is more important than ever for people to understand birthplace, nationality, documents, and platitudes are not enough to fulfil the promises of citizenship— that is, for example, freedom. Freedom and the fulfillment of its virtues are unfinished, an ongoing dynamic struggle. Too often citizenship education implies docile, conforming, spectator behavior and thought.

Contemporary conditions demand an anti-oppressive citizenship education, one that takes seriously social and economic inequalities and oppression that result from neoliberal capitalism. While we can build upon the anti-oppressive possibilities of established, officially sanctioned pedagogies, that is not enough.

This lecture will explore imaginaries that might serve as the basis for the creation of pedagogies of dangerous citizenship. The pedagogical power of dangerous citizenship, resides in its capacity to encourage us to challenge the implications of own work; to envision an education that is free and democratic to the core; and to interrogate and uncover our own well-intentioned complicity in oppressive educational and cultural practices.

See: https://www.academia.edu/8400387/Mary_Hepburn_Lecture_University_of_Georgia_October_16_2014

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Centre for the Study of the State, Power, and Globalisation: Fall Semester Seminar Series

Communisation

CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF THE STATE, POWER, AND GLOBALISATION: FALL SEMESTER SEMINAR SERIES

Richmond, the American International University in London 

Centre for the Study of the State, Power, and Globalisation 

FALL SEMESTER SERIES

17th September 2014

Easier to Imagine the End of the World than the End of Capitalism?

Luke Cooper (Richmond, AIUL)

The contemporary political imagination is characterised by ‘capitalist realism’: the widespread belief there is no alternative to capitalism. If even today’s dissident movements cannot generate a sense of a realisable utopia, then where does this leave the emancipatory hopes of radical modernity? Luke Cooper discusses “what’s left after history ended”.

Luke Cooper, Assistant Professor in International History at Richmond, AIUL is author (with Simon Hardy) of Beyond Capitalism? The Future of Radical Politics (Zero Books).

22nd October 2014

Markets, Money, and Morality: Assessing What Money Can’t Buy

Simon Choat (Kingston University)

12th November 2014

Organisation of the Organisation-less: Understanding Networked Social Movements

Rodrigo Nunes (PUC-Rio)

6pm, Room 216

Asa Briggs Hall

Ansdell Street

Kensington campus

Nr tube High Street Kensington and Gloucester Road

First Published in http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/news/distributed/centre-for-the-study-of-the-state-power-and-globalisation-fall-semester-series-richmond-aiul

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4th Annual Equality Lecture

Sociology

4th ANNUAL EQUALITY LECTURE

British Sociological Association

2014 Equality Lecture

Tom Shakespeare on Enabling Equality: from disabling barriers to equal participation

30 May 2014 from 6.00-8.00pm

British Library Conference Centre

London, UK

In this talk, the researcher and disability rights advocate Dr Tom Shakespeare will explore what it takes to achieve equality for disabled people, in the era of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and ‘welfare reform’. Barrier removal and reasonable adjustments make workplaces more accessible, but only if the extra costs which disabled people face are met through state benefits. Because disability is so diverse, ensuring that all disabled people can flourish requires more than simply levelling the playing field. Where next for disability equality?

Tom Shakespeare is a senior lecturer in medical sociology at the University of East Anglia. Previously, he worked at the World Health Organization where he was one of the authors and editors of the World Report on Disability (2011). Author of Disability Rights and Wrongs Revisited (2013) among other publications, Tom has been involved in the disability movement since 1986.

The event will be chaired by Howard Wollman, Chair of the British Sociological Association.

See: http://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/equality-lecture.aspx

To book a place: http://www.bl.uk/whatson/events/event159848.html

 

Past Lectures

These events are jointly hosted by the British Sociological Association and The British Library and were introduced in 2011.

 

15 April 2013 – The Art of Association: the formation of egalitarian social capital

Danielle Allen

Watch this event

 

25 June 2012 – What’s So Good About Being More Equal?

Professor Danny Dorling, University of Sheffield

Watch this event

 

27 June 2011 – The Spirit Level

Professor Richard Wilkinson, the Equality Trust

 

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Marxism and Art

Marxism and Art

MARXISM AND ART

The Marx Memorial Library presents lectures on Marxism and Art with Dr Grant Pooke

 

Tuesday 24 September:

‘Red-Spectre Jitters: Francis Klingender, Art History and the Cold War’

 

Lectures begin at 7 pm in the Library.

Lectures are free although a collection will be taken.

 

Dr Laura Miller

Administrator

Marx Memorial Library

37a Clerkenwell Green

London EC1R 0DU

(Tel)  0207 253 1485

(Web site): http://www.marx-memorial-library.org

Marx Memorial Library

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Marx Memorial Library: The Heritage of Ralph Miliband

Marx Memorial Library

MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY: THE HERITAGE OF RALPH MILIBAND

These lectures at the Marx Memorial Library celebrate the contributions of sociologist and political thinker Ralph Miliband to Marxist thought and politics.

 

The Heritage of Ralph Miliband

Convened and presented by Mike Newman

 

 

Tuesday 17 June – Labour and the New Left: Parliamentary Socialism

Tuesday 24 June – Marxism and Politics: The State in Capitalist Society

 

Dr Laura Miller

Administrator

Marx Memorial Library

37a Clerkenwell Green

London EC1R 0DU

(Tel)  0207 253 1485

(Web site): http://www.marx-memorial-library.org

 

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The Globalisation Lectures at SOAS – Now Online

Neoliberalism

THE GLOBALISATION LECTURES AT SOAS – NOW ONLINE

 

Women and the ‘Arab Spring’: Lessons from Iran?

Haideh Moghissi, Professor and Trudeau Fellow, Department of Equity Studies, York University, Toronto

6 March 2013

 

Is Islamism the Arab Destiny?

Aziz Al-Azmeh, CEU University Professor, School of Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies, Central European University, Budapest

6 February 2013

 

Which Democracy for a Multipolar World?

Chantal Mouffe, Professor of political theory and director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster

28 November 2012

 

Globalisation in Time: Between the Camera and the Clock

Marcus Verhagen, Art historian and critic, Sotheby’s Institute of Art and Goldsmiths College, University of London

31 October 2012

 

Men who Tiptoe into their Marital Bedrooms: The Novelist and Dictatorship

Hisham Matar

5 March 2012

 

Inclusion and Participation: a New Agenda for the Globalised Economy

Heiner Flassbeck (Director on Globalization and Development Strategies, UNCTAD)

1 February 2012

 

Corporate Takeovers, Internet Challenges: does journalism have a future?

Dr Serge Halimi (Director, Le Monde Diplomatique)

2 March 2011

 

Nobel Prize Winner Dr Shirin Ebadi on The Role of Women in Promoting Peace in the Middle East

Dr Shirin Ebadi (Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003)

2 February 2011

 

World Literature and World Languages

Tariq Ali (Novelist, Playwright and Historian; Editor – New Left Review)

1 December 2010

 

Peasant Struggles and Ecology in the Age of Globalisation

Hugo Blanco (Leader of the Peasant Confederation, Peru)

27 October 2010

 

Humanitarianism at the Risk of Imperialism

Dr Rony Brauman (1999 Nobel Peace Prize winner and Former President of Doctors without Borders (MSF, Paris))

3 March 2010

 

For a Green and Just Way out of the Global Crisis

Dr Susan George

20 January 2010

 

The American Empire in Light of the Global Crisis

Professor Alex Callinicos and Professor Leo Panitch

25 November 2009

 

Noam Chomsky: Crises and the Unipolar Moment

Professor Noam Chomsky

27 October 2009

 

The World’s Third Spaces: Neither Global Nor National?

Prof. Saskia Sassen – Lynd Professor Of Sociology And Member, The Committee On Global Thought, At Columbia University (New York)

25 February 2009

 

Beyond Neoliberal Globalisation And Us Hegemony: What Next?

Prof. Samir Amin – Director Of The Third World Forum (Dakar, Senegal)

26 November 2008

 

The Imperial Paradox: Ideologies of Empire

Prof. Ellen Meiksins Wood Professor Emerita of Political Science at York University (Toronto, Canada)

29 October 2008

 

Counter-Hegemonic Globalisation: Has the Movement Reached its Limits?

Professor Boaventura de Sousa Santos

22 April 2008

 

New Left Wing Governments in South America. Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador: A First Balance-Sheet

Dr Eric Toussaint (World Social Forum and Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt)

25 February 2008

 

The Present Financial Crisis: How to Stop Globalisation from Eating Itself

Robert Wade, Professor of Political Economy and Development (LSE)

22 January 2008

 

First Published at: http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/news/distributed/online-the-globalisation-lectures-at-soas-u.-of-london

 

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